Scioccante, proibito e oggetto di processi per oscenità, il primo romanzo di Henry Miller Tropico del cancro è uno dei libri più scandalosi e influenti del ventesimo secolo, una novità per Penguin Modern Classics con una copertina di Tracey Emin Tropico del cancro ha ridefinito il romanzo. Ambientato a Parigi negli anni '30, racconta di uno scrittore americano affamato che vive una vita bohémien tra prostitute, papponi e artisti. Vietato negli Stati Uniti e nel Regno Unito per più di trent'anni perché considerato pornografico, Tropico del cancro ha continuato a essere distribuito in Francia e contrabbandato in altri paesi. Quando fu pubblicato per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti nel 1961, portò a più di 60 processi per oscenità fino a quando una sentenza storica della Corte Suprema non lo definì un'opera letteraria. A lungo acclamato come un libro veramente liberatorio, audace e intransigente, Tropico del Cancro è una pietra miliare della letteratura moderna che ci chiede di riconsiderare tutto ciò che sappiamo su arte, libertà e moralità. "Finalmente un libro non stampabile che è adatto alla lettura" Ezra Pound "Un evento epocale nella storia della scrittura moderna" Samuel Beckett "Il libro che ha cambiato per sempre il modo in cui sarebbe stata scritta la letteratura americana" Erica Jong.
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Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. He is widely recognised as an irreverent, risk-taking writer who redefined the novel and made the link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat generation.
Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Henry Miller's first novel Tropic of Cancer is one of the most scandalous and influential books of the twentieth century -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey Emin. Tropic of Cancer redefined the novel. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it features a starving American writer who lives a bohemian life among prostitutes, pimps, and artists. Banned in the US and the UK for more than thirty years because it was considered pornographic, Tropic of Cancer continued to be distributed in France and smuggled into other countries. When it was first published in the US in 1961, it led to more than 60 obscenity trials until a historic ruling by the Supreme Court defined it as a work of literature. Long hailed as a truly liberating book, daring and uncompromising, Tropic of Cancer is a cornerstone of modern literature that asks us to reconsider everything we know about art, freedom, and morality.
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